Ezpeleta had to take into account an idea that was starting to gain ground: what if, in 2021, to re-acclimatize a convalescing Marc Marquez to MotoGP, the Repsol Honda team could field a third RC213V? For those who think that the championship is devalued without him, it is a godsend, and for others who would not like to be World Champion without having seen the same Marc Marquez on the starting grid, it would take away an excuse to 'fail. The boss of promoter Dorna, Carmelo Ezpeleta, responds to the hypothesis. He also takes the opportunity to disavow those convinced of a cheap championship without the Cervera phenomenon...
Marc Marquez missed the 2020 season and many missed him too, starting with Honda. The campaign, also thanks to its new format imposed by the pandemic, was still exciting with nine different winners, and delivering a new generation World Champion, in this case Joan mir.
A new situation that we would like to confront with a Marc Marquez back on the track in full possession of his means. But for that, we will still have to wait, given the state of health of the eight-time World Champion who is not yet at the stage of only resuming training...
Precisely, to encourage him to come back and facilitate his reestablishment of bearings, the hypothesis of seeing him engage in a third Honda Repsol began to be constructed. A subject that is nonetheless sensitive Carmelo Ezpeleta wanted to nip it in the bud by giving this point of view to what should go through a regulatory exemption: “ it will not be possible to field more than two motorcycles for the same team. HRC has two entries for the Repsol Honda team and two for the Lucio Cecchinello team. There will be no possibility of making exceptions ».
Ezpeleta: “the 2020 Championship was beautiful and hard fought”
We couldn't be clearer. And the same Ezpeleta wants to be just as clear on this chimera of a devalued championship without Marc Marquez : " Marc Marquez crashed in Jerez while taking risks as he has always done since the start of his career. Marquez is an incredible character, he has an incredible passion for his work. He was unlucky in Jerez, but the world championship still has value. For example, I remember 1999 and no one ever thought that the championship was less important because Doohan fell and the world championship was won by Crivillè ».
« Obviously, with a title contender like Marquez, things would have changed, but the championship is over with those who go on the track. For me, the argument that the title has less value because for example 15 races are run and not 18 is not fair. At the beginning when we started there were 12/13 races and it was an absolutely valid world championship. The 2020 Championship was beautiful and hard fought, it would certainly have been more so with Marquez, but that does not change things » ends on motorionline.com the boss of Dorna.
